ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries College & Research libraries n e w s No. 4, April 1974 ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries, Vol. 35, No. 2 ACRL New York Programs The professional needs and concerns of aca­ demic librarians in their working environments will serve as the focus of the conference pro­ grams sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries during the 1974 ALA Annual Conference in New York City, July 7-13. Professional Concerns A program sponsored by ACRL’s Committee on Academic Status, on Governance in Aca­ demic Libraries, will highlight the week’s ac­ tivities. In response to the growing interest in ACRL’s activities in this area, the program will explore the implications of faculty status for academic librarians, particularly on the relation­ ship between the chief administrative officer of the library and other librarians on the staff. The program will begin with a video-taped presentation of a discussion of the topic by six university library administrators: Eldred R. Smith, SUNY-Buffalo, moderator; Frederick Duda, Columbia University; Dr. Jane G. Fle- ner, University of California-Berkeley; Dr. Stuart Forth, Pennsylvania State University; W. David Laird, University of Arizona; and Dr. Ellsworth G. Mason, University of Colo­ rado. A live panel, moderated by Evert Vol- kersz, SUNY-Stony Brook, and composed of li­ brarians from different types of academic li­ braries, nonadministrative librarians, and mem­ bers of the audience, will respond to the views presented in the video-taped discussion. Com­ pleting the program, Dr. Dwight Ladd, Profes­ sor at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New H amp­ shire, will present a scholarly paper based on his research in the area of governance in higher education. The program will be presented on Sunday, July 7, 2:00-4:00 p.m. ACRL received a special program allocation for the prepara­ tion and presentation of this program, in sup­ port of President Jean Lowrie’s 1974 conference theme, “The Nature of the Profession.” The University Libraries Section of ACRL has planned a program on M anagement Self- Study, to examine the application of the Asso­ ciation of Research Libraries’ Management Re­ view and Analysis Program (M RA P). A sum­ mary of the purposes and procedures of MRAP, which is designed to assist research libraries in a self-analysis of their management techniques, will be supplied by Duane E. Webster, a staff member at ARL. A report of a specific appli­ cation of MRAP will be presented by Millicent D. Abell, SUNY-Buffalo, who chaired an MRAP study at the University of Washington libraries. The perspectives of a director of a li­ brary involved in an MRAP study will be fur­ nished by Russell Shank, Smithsonian Institu­ tion. The program will be presented on Tues­ day, July 9, 8:30-10:30 p.m. The ACRL College Libraries Section will sponsor a panel discussion on The Task of Col­ lege Libraries in the Seventies. The panel will focus on the needs and directions of college li­ braries, as foreseen not by college librarians but by members of the major constituencies of col­ Coüsge & Research Libraries is published by the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, 17 times yearly—6 bimonthly journal issues and II monthly, combining July- August, News issues at J20I-05 Bluff St., Fulton, Mo. 65251. Subscription, $15.00 a year or, to members of the division, $7.50, included in dues. Circulation and advertising office: American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, III. 60611. Second-class postage paid at Fulton, Missouri 65251. News editor: Allan Dyson, M offitt . Undergraduate Library, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720. Associate, News editor: Susana Hinojosa, Assistant Librarian, Reference Department, M offitt Undergraduate Library. Editor: Richard M., Dougherty, University Library, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720. President, ACRL: Norman Tanîs. Executive Secretary, ACRL: Beverly Lynch, ALA. lege libraries: students, faculty, and administra­ tors. Alphonso Bolton, Baruch College, will speak as a student; Dr. Howard H. Bell, Mor­ gan State College (M aryland), will present a professor’s view; Dr. Jewell P. Cobb, Connecti­ cut College, will offer a dean’s perspective; and Dr. Alexander Schure, New York Institute of Technology, will provide a president’s outlook. A period of open dialogue among the speakers and the audience will follow the panel presen­ tations. The program, moderated by E. J. Josey, New York State Education Department, will be presented on Tuesday, July 9, 2:00-4:00 p.m. The Community and Junior College Libraries Section of ACRL will hold a conference-within- a-conference, to study The Community College LRC: A Force in the Community?. The program will feature a discussion of community pro­ grams in community college libraries and will provide an opportunity for consultation and ad­ vice from resource persons who are actively in­ volved in community programs. Dr. William N. Birenbaum, president of Staten Island Commu­ nity College, will deliver the keynote address. Conference attendees will participate in small discussion groups on cable television in commu­ nity colleges, on nontraditional study programs, on unique community programs at various col­ leges, and on cooperative arrangements be­ tween community colleges and public libraries. As part of the conference, the section will host a reception for a group of Japanese junior col­ lege librarians who plan to attend th e New York Conference. The program will be held on Sunday, July 7, 9:00 a.m .-4:00 p.m. Advance registration is required. For further information ERIC/CLIS Merges The ERIC Clearinghouse on Library and Information Sciences (E R IC /C L IS ) —formerly at 1140 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036—ceased operation on December 31, 1973. E R IC /C L IS was merged with the ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Me­ dia and Technology (E R IC /E M ) to form the new ERIC Clearinghouse on In ­ formation Resources (E R IC /IR ), which is now covering the library-information science fields, as well as educational me­ dia and technology, for the ERIC system. Please change all mailing lists to reflect the new structure. In the future, all mail­ ings should go to: ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Resources, Center for Re­ search and Development in Teaching, School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94304. and registration materials, contact Mrs. Louise Giles, Dean of Learning Resources, Macomb County Community College, 14500 Twelve Mile Road, W arren, MI 48093. The ACRL Committee to Revise the 1959 Standards for College Libraries will sponsor, as it did during the 1974 Midwinter Confer­ ence, a series of hearings on its work toward re­ vising the standards. The committee is solicit­ ing responses from all persons and groups with an interest in standards for college libraries. The hearings will be held Wednesday, July 10, 2:00-6:00 p.m., and Thursday, July 11, 9:00 a.m .-12:00 noon. Interested persons are invited to appear anytime during these time slots. Special Interests The Association of College and Research Li­ braries will sponsor several programs of interest to academic librarians in specialized working environments. The ACRL Education and Be­ havioral Sciences Section, in cooperation with the Clearinghouse and Laboratory for Census Data, will present a two-day instructional pro­ gram on Access to Printed and Computerized Census Data. Staff from the clearinghouse will illustrate the uses and applications of census data in library situations and will demonstrate the availability of census data in printed reports and on computer tapes. The program, sched­ uled for Sunday, July 7, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m., and Monday, July 8, 9:00 a .m .-l:3 0 p.m., will feature an address by Vincent R. Barabba, di­ rector of the Bureau of the Census. Registration is required and limited to 125 persons. For further information and registration materials, contact Beverly P. Lynch, Executive Secretary, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. The Manuscripts Committee of the ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section will spon­ sor a panel discussion examining the debate concerning Access to Manuscripts. Panel p ar­ ticipants will present differing points of view on the subject. Ralph G. Newman, a trustee of the Chicago Public Library and the appraiser of Richard Nixon’s vice-presidential papers, will speak as a private dealer in manuscripts. W il­ liam Dix, Princeton University library, will of­ fer the viewpoint of a director of a research li­ brary with large manuscripts collections. A third panelist will represent the view of a major historian or of a staff member from the national archives. The program, scheduled for Tuesday, July 9, 2:00-4:00 p.m., will conclude with a period for open discussion. ACRL will cosponsor, with five other divi­ sions, a program on Independent Learning Pro­ grams for Adults, to examine the unique con­ tributions of libraries to adults’ individual pro­ grams of life-long learning. Basic concepts fol­ lowed in the Library Independent Study Proj­ ects will be presented by national program 74 staff, and examples of work accomplished in twelve pilot libraries will be featured. Program planning, understanding of the special needs of the adult learner, and certain aspects of on­ site training of library personnel, such as plan­ ning and evaluation and decision making by the learner, will comprise the program content. The program will be presented on Thursday, July 11, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon, and 2:00-4:00 p.m. A group of undergraduate librarians has scheduled a meeting of the informal Under­ graduate Librarians Discussion Group, for Monday, July 8, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon. The meeting will serve to re-establish communica­ tions among the UgLi group. An informal discussion group for academic librarians dealing with Western European Lan­ guages and Literatures has been scheduled for Wednesday, July 10, 12:00 noon-2:00 p.m. Other ACRL programs will treat Canadian- American reference services, anthropology re­ sources and collections in the New York area, library support for non-Western area studies, and the role of librarians in East European So­ cialist societies. ACRL Reception ACRL members will have a formal opportu­ nity to meet with their colleagues in a social atmosphere during the conference week. New York University will host a reception for all ACRL members on Wednesday, July 10, 7:30- 10:30 p.m., at the Elmer Holmes Bobst Li­ brary. The Bobst Library, dedicated in Decem­ ber 1972, is the first central library building in New York University’s Washington Square. One of the world’s largest open-stack libraries, it is the largest university library structure in New York City and the first major research li­ brary to be built in the city in thirty-five years. ACRL Self-Study The ACRL divisional program meeting and the ACRL membership meeting, on Monday, July 8, 2:00-6:00 p.m., will serve to keep ACRL members apprised of ACRL’s current programs, directions, and policies. As an intro­ duction to the ongoing goals study in ACRL, Dr. David Kaser, of the Graduate Library School at Indiana University, and long active in ACRL affairs, will present a paper on the processes for planning for future activities in an organization such as ACRL. The goals study is being undertaken by a committee chaired by Dr. Le Moyne W. Anderson, Colorado State University. The announcement of the appoint­ ment of the committee appears elsewhere in this issue. Tours Numerous tours are being offered to confer­ ence attendees during the conference week. A listing of ACRL-sponsored tours follows. Art Section, tour of The Cloisters (Medieval Section of the Metropolitan Museum of Art), Monday, July 8, 12:00 noon-4:00 p.m. Regis­ tration fee of $8.00 includes transportation and lunch and must be prepaid. Registration is lim­ ited to fifty persons. To register, send check with your name and address to Mrs. Barbara Sevy, 242 Mather Road, Jenkintown, PA 19046. Art Section, tour and lecture at the Museum of the City of New York (1220 Fifth Avenue, between 103rd and 104th Streets), Tuesday, July 9, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon. Registration is limited to fifty persons. To register, send name and address to Mrs. Barbara Sevy, 242 Mather Road, Jenkintown, PA 19046. Art Section, tour and slide lecture at the Sotheby-Parke-Bernet Auction House (980 Madison Avenue), Tuesday, July 9, 2:00-4:00 p.m. Registration is limited to fifty persons. To register, send name and address to Mrs. Bar­ bara Sevy, 242 Mather Road, Jenkintown, PA 19046. Art Section, tour of the Frick Collection (1 East 70th Street) and meeting with the cu­ ratorial staff, Thursday, July 11, 10:00 a.m.- 12:00 noon. Registration limited to fifty per­ sons. To register, send name and address to Mrs. Barbara Sevy, 242 Mather Road, Jenkin­ town, PA 19046. Community and Junior College Libraries Section, tour to Bergen Community College (Paramus, N .J.) and to Brookdale Community College (Lincroft, N .J.), Tuesday, July 9, 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Registration fee of $8.00 in­ cludes transportation and lunch and must be prepaid. To register, send check with your name and address to Mrs. Louise Giles, Dean of Learning Resources, Macomb County Com­ munity College, 14500 Twelve Mile Road, Warren, MI 48093. Law and Political Science Section, tour of the United Nations Library, Tuesday, July 9, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon. Registration limited to fifty LPSS members. To register, send name and address to Mrs. Nancy M. Rodgers, 485 Front St., $-415, Hempstead, NY 11550. Upon request, Mrs. Rodgers will provide registrants with information about transportation to the li­ brary. ■ ■ 75 Tens o f thousands o f changes . . . a d d itio n s . . . deletions . . . am ounting to some 25% o f the entries have been made in the just-published 1974 edition of The National Faculty Direc­ tory, the O N LY com prehen­ sive and frequently-updated source o f inform ation on who- is-where in the academic world. The NFD has been praised by reviewers and users as the most reliable reference book for identifying and locating W H R Q : ‘ ‘The National Faculty Directory is the ‘who’s where’ o f the academic c o m m u n i t y . I t is f o r a c a d e m ic p e rso n n e l w h at th a t o th e r G ale reference staple, the Encyclopedia o f Associations, is for U.S. organizations . . . NFD provides an extremely com­ prehensive listing o f some 400,000 full- and part-time faculty members at some 3,000 institutions o f higher learning. 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